Substacks recommended by ChinaTalk

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Exclusive and in-depth semiconductor trend analysis, covering technological breakthroughs, supply chain shifts, with a strong focus on Taiwan's strategic position :exclusive insights from tech columnist Liang-rong Chen in Taiwan.

水瓶纪元

多元共生，重返对话。

Value Added

By JS Tan

Value Added is a newsletter about the political economy of innovation.

Leapfrog

By Rita Liao

Documenting migrant founders outside the American-centric bubble

Shakespeare News

By Kate Pitt

A weekly newsletter about the world's most popular playwright.

Peking Hotel

By Liu He

Stories of what China used to be and what it is capable of becoming.

Deep interviews with lifelong China watchers--Liu He spends over twenty hours each with each subject, painting a fascinating window into modern China through the foreigners who have invested most into understanding its evolution. One of the best new China newsletters of 2024 can't wait to see what he does with it.

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Conflict

By Stephen Roach

Can the US and China avoid accidental conflict?

High Capacity

By Kyle Chan

Industrial policy, clean technology, EVs, infrastructure, and development, particularly in China and India.

kyle chan's coverage of industrial policy is second to none

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This Week in Rural China

By Nathan Whittaker

This Week in Rural China explores the landscapes, lives, and quiet revolutions shaping China's countryside. Each week, discover sharp analysis, evocative storytelling, and reflections illuminating China beyond the skylines.

Asterisk Magazine

Substack mirror of Asterisk Magazine. New pieces on Mondays and occasional archives.

Eating Policy

By Jennifer Pahlka

In business, culture eats strategy. In government, culture eats policy. Here we'll talk about the problems of state capacity (government's ability to achieve its policy goals) and how to fix them. From the author of Recoding America.

Emerging Technology Observatory

By ETO

News, demos, and analysis from the Emerging Technology Observatory (https://eto.tech), CSET's public platform for data and insight on critical emerging tech issues.

Foreign Policy Expertise

By Dan Spokojny

We walk like experts, we talk like experts, but does that really mean we know what we're doing? This substack explores the nature of expertise in foreign policy in the 21st century.

Stanford SCCEI China Briefs

A biweekly brief series from the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions that translates data-driven research on China into evidence-based insights

Fantastic digestible breakdowns of policy-relevant academic research on China

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Daniel Petkevich

History, geopolitics, technology, and culture.

Directed Divergence

Weekly updates on numbers, news, and nations. Making sense of Kondratiev, Kuznets, and Kitchin cycles

Hanson hurts my brain he's very smart.

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Culpium, by Tim Culpan

Culpium: noun [U] — a cure for lack of knowledge, understanding or clarity. *taken by those seeking to improve comprehension of technology, semiconductors, and supply chains especially in Asia. *See your therapist if stupidity persists

Supervised

By Matthew Lynley

Covering innovation and emerging technology in big data and AI.

Moly’s Substack

By Chinese Doom Scroll

A translation of all the hottest Weibo posts!

WOMEN我们

“WOMEN我们”是一个想象的共同体，用免于审查的中文书写当代史的初稿。欢迎您订阅我们，并帮助防火墙内的朋友邮件订阅我们；也欢迎您捐助和分享我们的文章。请联系chugaofirstdraft@proton.me，为报道提供线索或加入我们，成为撰稿人。我们会努力保证您的信息安全。

Yes, I give a fig... thoughts on markets from Michael Green

By Michael W. Green

Thoughts on financial markets and economics from Simplify's Chief Strategist

really sharp and engaging perspectives on macro

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Global Cyber Digest

By Justin Sherman

Leading analysis of technology, policy, and geopolitics—from Global Cyber Strategies, a Washington, DC-based research and advisory firm.

Justin Sherman is the first person I turn to for cyber policy questions

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The Business of Power

By Miquel Vila

Political elites and geopolitical visions

Chip Capitols

By Arrian Ebrahimi

Analyzing semiconductor policy by governments around the world

Arrian is the hardest working semiconductor policy analyst on the internet. His coverage impressively spans the US, Asia and Europe, with particularly deep China coverage you cannot find elsewhere.

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by sam eng

By by Sam Eng

I write here to remind myself what it is all about: how much I want it, how much I need it. How much it hurts to make a video game.

McFaul's World

By Michael McFaul

Analyzing the fight between democrats and autocrats around the world. Cheering for the democrats to win.

The Scholar's Stage

By Tanner Greer

Researching the Communist Party of China is my day job. Here I write long reads on international politics, ancient history, and American conservatism.

tanner is the best read and most thoughtful essayist out there. Has forgotten more than I'll ever know about history and China

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Silver Bulletin

By Nate Silver

Essays and analysis about elections, media, sports, poker, and all the other things I care about.

One Useful Thing

By Ethan Mollick

Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick

Strategic Translation Updates

By Center for Strategic Translation

The Center for Strategic Translation is a non-profit research institute that locates, translates, and analyzes strategic Chinese texts to inform scholarship and policymaking.

Interconnected

By Kevin Xu

On the intersections of tech, investing, geopolitics, and US-Asia relations

Kevin Xu does a fantastic job exploring China + tech

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Sinification

By Thomas des Garets Geddes

The world as viewed from China.

China News

By Phil Cunningham

News analysis, essays, opinion pieces, articles

Concrete Avalanche

By Jake

A newsletter about music from China

The best English language entry point for contemporary Chinese music

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Big Serge Thought

Musings and Ponderings

Active Faults

By Em

observing China's entertainment industry and celebrity fandom

an entertaining and thoughtful look into popular culture in China

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The Algorithmic Bridge

By Alberto Romero

A blog about AI that's actually about people

Observing Japan

By Tobias Harris

News and views on Japan's politics

Discourse Power

By Tuvia Gering

Tracking China's rise to the world's center stage.

Tuvia puts in that work! Fantastic weekly overview of what's happening in CCP discourse and mainland academia

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Natto Thoughts

By Natto Team

Stories, analysis and insights from the intersection of culture, technology, and security.

kamilkazani

Mein Freund, das grad' ist Dichters Werk, dass er sein Träumen deut' und merk'

Rough Drafts

By Charles Yang

Miscellaneous thoughts on climate, technology, theology, etc

Comment is Freed

By Sam Freedman

Politics, policy analysis, and foreign affairs from Sam and Lawrence Freedman

Vital Signs

By Jacob Effron

Health tech company, sub-sector and trend breakdowns

Jacob does a tremendous job exploring the present and future of health care. I did not care about this topic at all before discovering Vital Signs and now it’s one of my favorite industries to watch!

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Don't Worry About the Vase

By Zvi Mowshowitz

A world made of gears. Doing both speed premium short term updates and long term world model building. Currently focused on weekly AI updates. Explorations include AI, policy, rationality, medicine and fertility, education and games.

Zvi is a 1 of 1. His coverage of Covid-19 helped me think more clearly about the nature of knowledge and expertise. I've also enjoyed his new explorations into regulatory politics (ie this post about the dredge act of 1906 https://thezvi.substack.com/p/repeal-the-foreign-dredge-act-of)

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